Annual Congress 2022 comes to Belfast

Annual Congress 2022 comes to Belfast

Reflect and reconnect: Annual Congress 2022 comes to Belfast

We look forward to welcoming you to our first fully face-to-face Annual Congress 2022 in two years. Join us from Wednesday 14 to Friday 16 September in Belfast, Northern Ireland's vibrant capital and birthplace of RMS Titanic. Delegate booking is now open (with exclusive early booking discounts for members).

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Celebrating 90 years of the Association of Anaesthetists

To mark our 90th anniversary, we've lined up an exciting and diverse programme that reflects all aspects of the Association’s work in response to its members and the specialty. Annual Congress 2022 promises to offer more CPD than ever before and in exciting new ways, including five keynotes, TED style talks, Q&As, live simulations, workshops and a spectacular dinner dance at the Titanic Museum.

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Practical workshops and live stage demonstrations

Returning to in-person education means the return of workshops. Annual Congress 2022 will offer plenty of opportunity to get interactive, hands-on experience of the latest technology and techniques in the speciality:

  • Workshops: Point of care ultrasound, Ultrasound-guided regional blocks, Critical incident simulation, Focused transthoracic echocardiography (fTOE), Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) and How to publish a paper. 
  • Live on-stage simulation and demos: point of care ultrasound and regional anaesthesia.

Book early and save

Association members benefit from the best booking rates for Annual Congress 2022, with an exclusive early booking discount: book by 23:59 on Wednesday 3 August 2022 and as a member you can save up to £75 on the standard member rate (and considerably more on the non member rate).

More keynote speakers

  • The magic of the NHS - Mr Michael Rosen, writer and performance poet for children and adults. Michael Rosen spent 6 weeks in ICU at the start of the first wave of the pandemic. He will talk about his experience of the NHS, what he remembers from his time on ICU and how this has changed him. 
  • Can we ever reduce the NHS waiting list for surgery? - Ms Deborah Eastwood, Vice President, British Orthopaedic Association 
  • Infection to inflammation - why the immune system is so important and what goes wrong, including COVID-19 - Prof Luke O'Neill, Prof of Immunology, Trinity College, Dublin 
  • Team work and creating a high performance environment - Dr Noelle Healy, Final year trainee and simulation fellow, College of Anaesthesiologists of Ireland 
  • The assistant surgeon. A Titanic story - Dr John Martin, Retired Consultant, Accident and Emergency Dept, Belfast (his great uncle was Dr Simpson, Assistant Surgeon on the RMS Titanic)

Professor Andrew Klein
Programme Lead, Annual Congress 2022 and Editor-In-Chief Anaesthesia journal

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